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Microhousing affordable to buyers, profitable to developers: There is not a desirable city that exists that doesn’t have a
A ‘Google Maps for pedestrians: Say you live in a walkable city and want walking directions as
CNU’s placemaking 2008 ‘Charter Awards’ announced: If you want to know which New Urbanism projects New Urbanism architects
What do clocks and clouds have to do with enlivening cities?: Continuing our look at the contemporary Remixing Cities: Strategy 2.0 paper profiled
Remixing Cities – a must read: If there’s one research document to read to better understand how crowdsourcing
Gen Xers get credit for rise of walkable urbanism: Who is sourcing the growing popularity in walkable urban areas and city
Pecha Kucha Night – ‘Speed art & chit chat’ for creatives: In 2003, two employees of Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo felt there
Crashed Ice’ brings cultural identity to northern cities: Cities love having an event followed by the sentence, “Only in ____”,
Establishing a music scene 101: Every district wants a music scene, but not every district has one.
The 50 Greenest Cities in the U.S.: Sure, it’s yet another green city list, but we try to cover
Does your city enhance work-life balance?: Continuing our happiness theme from the previous entry, here’s one way to
Beach in the city: Paris’ Mayor Bertrand Delanoë wanted to make summer vacation accessible to people
Zero carbon, zero car city in Abu Dhabi: The list is impressive for Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s grand experiment (ground breaking
What is crowdsourced placemaking?: What exactly is crowdsourced placemaking? Crowdsourcing – “the act of taking a
Developer sets benchmark for change in Milwaukee: When the founders of North Avenue Community Development Corporation in Milwaukee wanted
Visual map of the beta community process in action: A picture is worth a thousand words, so maybe a diagram is
Third places, events and scenes oh my…: If you’re looking to establish a beta community to crowdsource a natural
Car free ‘natural cultural districts’ in the U.S.: While there are 41 entries on the list of car free places
The definitive list of car free places: …is on Wikipedia’s list of car free places. Now the first thing
This isn’t your father’s light rail: …which is why in Europe they call them trams, apart from ‘light
Cool spots’ – Identifying low carbon neighborhoods: A picture is worth a thousand words, which is why the folks
Highest density of creative class members: The most straightforward measure of the creative class in any city is
The hidden ‘indoor’ outdoor patios of Key West: The essence of Key West’s vibrancy, located along the very public Duvall
The hidden public courtyards of Buenos Aires: Hidden to tourists that is. The locals know where the public courtyards
Crowdsourcing a local, indie brand for creatives, by creatives: A green restaurant: Local, independent businesses that are just starting out typically can’t compete with
State of Vermont gets in on creative cities: How serious is the commitment to building more vibrant cities? This whole